Rail-joint.



gwen scANLAsz or new oiinsaxs. LOUISIANA' Nofseaosn.,

T o es? iiizmn 'it may concem: Be, it known that I, OWENA SCANLA'N, citizen et the Unit-ed States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of i'leans and State of Louisiana., have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of, which the folios-ing is a specification.

lijf invention pertains to raily joints of the chair ty mand ithas for its object to provide s c air joint constructed lwithv a view of etlieiently supporting all parts of rail heads and reinforcing the same against outward lateral thrust, without preventing endwise movement of the rails in the chair, and of exrising a maximum of the meeting portions of the rails to the atmosphere so as to assure as free expansion 'and contraction of the said meeting portions as of the remainder of the rails.

To the attainment of the foregoing object, the invention consists in the construction of joint chair hereinafter described and particulariy pointed out in the claim appended.

L". the drawings, aeeompanyinP and" forming part of this s eeiication: Figure 1 is a perspective View s owing one side ofmy impr =ve.inents. Fig. 2 is an elevation of theA opposite side thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse seca-ion taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated b the'arrow.

Similar etters designate corresponding ans in all of the views of the drawings, re.- erzing to which:

A A are the meeting portions of two rails which are preferably of the ordinary, known construction.

B is the base of my novel joint chair, and

v C C are flanges formed integral with or fixed to 'the base and designed to receive between their: the rail bases so as to hold s aid bases dem on the smooth upper side of the base B and at the same time permit of freefeiq'ian--` sien and contraction of the rails on said base. The base B is 'designed to be spiked, as shown, or otherwise lined upon sleepersor ties D.

. En addition to the base B and the ilanges C. my novel chair comprises an upper 'lon izniinal ortion E designed to rest under t ie heads o the rails at the inner side thereof.

sri-d support said heads, an up er longitudinai portion F, of right-angle fldrm' in cresssee'xion, designed to rest under the heads of tirs' rails at thel outer side thereof and su port. said heads and also reinforce and ho d Specification o! Letters liatent. 'Appiicaaon mei my s, 19m. serial no. 332.532.'

'otherwise xed at their .be used' for such purpose,

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Patented Aug. 4, 1908.

the 'saine against lateral outward thrust, inwardly and u 'iwardly inclined braces G formed integral their lower ends to one of the (langes C and formed integral with or fixed at their upper ends to the npperlongitudinal portion E,'and similar braces H formed integral with or lower ends to the other flange C and formed integral with or ixed at their up )er ends to the up er longitud'inal portion It will be readlily noted in/this connection that the bracesG are separ/atcd b v :i considerable interyeningjspace as are also the braces F; and from this it follows that while said braces will clicieiitly support 4the upper longitudinal portions E and of the joint. they will not interfere with the free circulation of air to and from the portions of the rails in the joint and hence will enable said portions to cx and and contract quite as freely as the remainder of the rails, which is advantageous since it assures the 'maintenance of'a level joint between the rails and piolongs the useiulnessof the rails as a whole.

When m3' novel chair is employed and it is deemed expedient to make provision aga-inst creepingr of the rails, any suitable means may such means forms no part of my invention I have not thought it necessary to illustrate .the same. j

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

Lrail. joint ofthe chair type, comprising a base, flanges' fixed on said base and arranged to receive the bases of the meeting port-ions of two rails between them, upper 7longitudinal ortions arranged to rest under the heads of the raiis and at opposite sides t the webs thereof; one of said portions being of rightangle forni in cross-section, whereby it is 'also ada ted to rest at the outer sides of the heads' of t e rails, inclined braces separated by an and fixed to one fla'nve undone upper longitudinal portion, and7 inclined braces separated by snintervenlng space and extendnig .between and fixed to the other flange and the up er longitudinal portion. v

n testimony whereof I atlix my lsignature inpreseneeof two witnesses. A OWEN SCANLN.

Vfitnesses: l

JSG. J. 'WARM A vnnnw WARD.

but inasmuch as l with or otherwise fixed at 'intervening space and extending between 

